Is it possible to do Hadoop development on cloud in a secure and economical way without worrying about our source being taken away. We would like to have Hadoop and eclipse installed on a vm in cloud and our developers will log into the cloud on a daily basis and work on the cloud. Like this we r hoping if we develop any product we will minimize our source being taken away by the devs or others and is secure. Please let me know, any suggestions u may have.Thanks,Sai

>> Is it possible to do Hadoop development on cloud in a secure and> economical way without worrying about our source being taken away. We> would like to have Hadoop and eclipse installed on a vm in cloud and our> developers will log into the cloud on a daily basis and work on the cloud.> Like this we r hoping if we develop any product we will minimize our source> being taken away by the devs or others and is secure. Please let me know,> any suggestions u may have.> Thanks,> Sai>

Both have Hadoop appliances which can be imported into VMWare / VirtualBox.Couple this with, perhaps, using Amazon Web Services for production hostingand all development can be done in-house with Eclipse and appropriateSource Control Management.

With Amazon don't have to worry so much about your proprietary code beingstolen as the biggest concern (depending on your HA requirements) have beenseveral high-profile outages where their servers in VA (when you subscribeto Amazon Web Services and create a Hadoop cluster, for example, it asksyou to specify the geographical region).

Nice thing about using Virtualization in-house for development, test,integration environments your developers can code and perform initialtesting in Dev using VMWare / VirtualBox to then take a snapshot and exportthe Dev environment then import into production. VWare and VirtualBox bothprovide proprietary means to accelerate this process streamlining an Agile/ Extreme Programming software development framework while simplifying therelease cycle.

Personally, if I were going to do it on the cheap and keep even productionin-house would leverage x86 Linux servers (running Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos,or even OpenSuSE) which natively support KVM (linux based Virtualizationwhich is free) to host Hortonworks (Hadoop) leveraging the UnixAdministrators and Network Engineering monkey's to securing the Productionserver which would have to be configured to accept public / externalconnections (assuming you are hosting an application which is Software as aService for your customers) while not compromising security.

Have worked at 2 firms in the past several years where we did the very sameand it worked exceptionally well just takes time to get your IT staff up tospeed on Virtualization, Cluster administration and synchronizing VirtualMachine backups with the promotion of releases from Dev to Test toProduction.On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Sai Sai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Is it possible to do Hadoop development on cloud in a secure and> economical way without worrying about our source being taken away. We> would like to have Hadoop and eclipse installed on a vm in cloud and our> developers will log into the cloud on a daily basis and work on the cloud.> Like this we r hoping if we develop any product we will minimize our source> being taken away by the devs or others and is secure. Please let me know,> any suggestions u may have.> Thanks,> Sai>